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Show SPRING TANK SALE ' OPENS IN LONDON By EARL C. REEVES, International News Service Staff Correspondent. LONDON", March 22. The government's govern-ment's spring sale of tanks has begun, but there are to be no bargains. Anybody who expected to pick up a nice souvenir of the war for parlor or front yard use at junk dealers' prices is doomed to disappointment. Some of the lumbering, humorous land ''battleships that have been pummelled by Fritz may go pretty cheaply; but the oth-I oth-I ers. though obsolete types, are still good animals, thoroughbreds, and to he treated treat-ed as such under the auctioneer's hammer. ham-mer. "There are no bargains." said a director di-rector of the sale: "Nobody is going to buy old iron here. "They are to be sold primarily to be broken up. Their engines, for instance, are 150 to 300 horse power and would be valuable for industrial purposes. No, they would hardly do for aeroplanes a bit too heavy. "Of course, if a good case was made out by anybody who wanted to keep a tank intact, the case would be considered. consid-ered. But one cannot conceive of anyone, any-one, for instance, collecting tanks, utilizing utiliz-ing them in any branch of sport, engaging engag-ing them in agricultural operations, or merely as a hobby." Apparently the present owners of the "stable" of 200 tanks have no intention that they shall be let go to any bidder and roam the country at the behest of, j say, a Sinn Fein M. P. or an "I. W. W.-like" W.-like" labor -agitator. |